Wire fabric.



QPATBNTED MAR. 14, 1905.

I B.SGARLES.

WIRE FABRIC.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 19, 1903.

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No. 784.892, Patented March 14, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN SCARLES, OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA, ASSICNOR TO PACIFIC STEEL & WVIRE COMPANY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, A COR- 7 PORATION OF CALIFORNIA.

WIRE FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 784,892, dated March 14, 1905.

Application filed October 19, 1903. Serial No. 177,555.

T Z h it m y OOH/067%: sponds to the formation of a joint constructed Beit known thatI, BENJAiwrINSoARLEs,aciti upon a mandrel or inner core, the removal of zen of the United States, residing at Stockton, which core leaves a hollow center.

in the county of San Joaquin, State of Cali- Where the longitudinal wires are twisted 5 fornia, have invented certain new and useful on their axes, the wire is materially strength- Improvements in Wire Fabric; and I do hereened, as greater stiffness and rigidity results by declare the following to be a full, clear, at the joints formed by the mesh-wires and to and exact description of the same. the longitudinal wires intermediate the said The hereinafter-described wire fabric or joints.

I0 netting is of that class known as fence In the drawings a standard size weave or fabric or netting used for the construction of mesh is disclosed of hexagon shape; but it is farm or range fencing, although equally as obvious that the size and shape of the mesh well adapted for gates, tree-boxes, metallic may be varied in accordance with the desire bond for cement-work, or any other purpose of the manufacturer of the fabric or netting.

I 5 desired of this class of material, the object of The essential feature of the present inventhe invention being to materially increase the tion resides in twisting each longitudinal wire strength of the fabric without increasing the on its own axis to give strength and rigidity 6 cost of its manufacture. thereto, so that when the mesh or stay wires To comprehend the invention, reference are united thereto asolid or cable-wound joint 2'0 should be had to the accompanying sheet of is formed.

drawings, wherein In carrying out my invention I provide up- Figure 1 is a detail broken view disclosing per and lower longitudinal wires and an ina portion of the improved wire fabric or nettermediate or series of intermediate longituditing. Fig. 2 is a detail enlarged view of one nal wires, (indicated by the reference-nuineral 25- of the joints of the mesh or stay wires with 1,) said wires being twisted upon their vertithe longitudinal wires, one end of said joint cal axes to form a series of closely-wound beingunwovenorthestrandsseparated. Fig. coils throughout their length. To said lon- 3 is across-sectional end view on line3 3, Fig. gitudinal wires are intertwisted for a given 2, of the drawings. Fig. 4 is a similar view length mesh or stay wires 5, 7, and 10 to form 30 taken on line 4 1 of said view. the closed joints 8, the said stay-wires 5, 7,

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 4: of the drawand 10 at the ends of said joints projecting ings, the numeral 1 indicates the longitudinal diagonally at opposite angles and intertwist- 0 wires of the fabric, and 5 7 the mesh or stay ed, as before, with the adjacent longitudinal wires. The said mesh or stay wires are run wires, and so on during the construction of the 35 diagonally of the longitudinal wires,'being fiber.

united thereto and to each other by the joint Having thus described the invention, what 8. The formation of this joint corresponds is claimed as new, and desired to be protected 8 5 to the section of a cable-that is, it is formed by Letters Patent, iswithout a hollow center. To successfully 1. A wire fabric or netting, comprising up- 4 construct such joint, the longitudinal wires as per and lower longitudinal wires, an intermefed through the machine are twisted upon diate longitudinal wire formed with a series their own axes, so that as the mesh or stay of closely-wound coils throughout its length, wires are twisted onto the said longitudinal and diagonallyalisposed stay-wires extending wires they will lie within the depressions 9 of inwardly from said upper and lower longitu- 45 such wires in the same manner as the strands dinal wires and intertwistcd with the coils of of a cable wind onto each other. A solid said intermediate wire, forming closed joints.

joint is thus formed in contradistinction to 2. Awire fabric or netting, comprising up- V what is known as a coil-joint, which eorreper and lower longitudinal wires, an intermediate longitudinal wire formed with a series In witness whereof I have hereuntoset my of closely-wound COllS throughout its length, hand.

ind cl iagon illy-dlsposed stay-wn'es extend ng I BENJAMIN SCARLES' inwaidly hoin szud uppei and lower longitu- 5 dinal wires, adjacent stay-wires being inter- Witnesses:

twisted with the coils of said intermediate wire R. A. REID, forming closed oints.

L. A. HAHN. 

